Singularity Sky
by Charles Stross
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Author: Charles StrossEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-29
ISBN: 0441011799
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441011797
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A Good Beginning
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good novel. Stross has written a interesting and mostly involving novel of the post-Singularity future where nanotechnology and AI rules.
If you haven't been reading up on Singularity theory (not Black Hole type singularities, this is the type described in Damien Broderick's non-fiction book "The Spike") and nanotech (Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation) then you will likely have problems following major parts of the plot. Singularity theory is the latest piece of "furniture" that is assumed prior-knowledge for much of the current wave of hard SF, particularly writers like Stross and Doctorow, et al. Probably also useful to know why FTL travel/signalling in Einstein's universe requires violations of causality and something about the EPR paradox in quantum mechanics and recent work on particle entanglement... Hey, this is SCIENCE FICTION not some bonnet drama from an arts/history dweeb!
Stross has fleshed out an interesting interstellar future-history scenario based around all this with a lot of humour thrown in for good measure. As a first novel it's very good overall and excellent in parts, but it's let down by too many pages of too detailed description of space battles and technologies and a rather let-down/watered-down ending. Still, I enjoyed it and I'm hopeful the writer will develop in his future work and overcome the rough patches in this one. I'm looking forward to the sequel Iron Sunrise where I hope to see this improvement happening. Three and a half stars.
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